FLS vs. GGG, IEX, MLI, ATS, FELE, CR, CWST, ZWS, SLGN, and ENS
Should you be buying Flowserve stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flowserve include Graco (GGG), IDEX (IEX), Mueller Industries (MLI), ATS (ATS), Franklin Electric (FELE), Crane (CR), Casella Waste Systems (CWST), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Silgan (SLGN), and EnerSys (ENS). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Flowserve vs.
Graco (NYSE:GGG) and Flowserve (NYSE:FLS) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
Graco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flowserve. Flowserve is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Graco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Graco presently has a consensus target price of $82.33, suggesting a potential downside of 0.30%. Flowserve has a consensus target price of $36.78, suggesting a potential upside of 1.46%. Given Flowserve's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Flowserve is more favorable than Graco.
In the previous week, Graco had 6 more articles in the media than Flowserve. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Graco and 11 mentions for Flowserve. Graco's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Flowserve's score of 0.41 indicating that Graco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Graco pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Flowserve pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Graco pays out 33.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Flowserve pays out 45.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Graco has increased its dividend for 25 consecutive years.
Graco has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flowserve has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Flowserve received 182 more outperform votes than Graco when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.81% of users gave Flowserve an outperform vote while only 61.40% of users gave Graco an outperform vote.
85.9% of Graco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Flowserve shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Graco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Flowserve shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Graco has a net margin of 22.44% compared to Flowserve's net margin of 6.13%. Graco's return on equity of 26.12% beat Flowserve's return on equity.
Summary
Graco beats Flowserve on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FLS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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